Ireland Beat Bangladesh in 7th ODI of series

Bangladesh was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International series in Ireland in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 4 and 8. The 7th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Civil Service Cricket Club, Belfast, Ireland on 27th July 2010. Bangladesh holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 7th ONE DAY international match: Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Syed Rasel, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mahmudullah Riad, Imrul Kayes,Rubel Hossain, Jahurul Islam

And Ireland team and 11 was looking like this in this 7th ONE DAY international Match: Trent Johnston, John Mooney, William Porterfield (c), Boyd Rankin, Andrew White, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien (wk), Alex Cusack, Gary Wilson, Paul Stirling, George Dockrell.

Ireland batted well and was able to post total of 260 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with top scores of John M who made 60 runs in 30 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls and K O Brien who made 50 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 261 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Bangladesh batted well but was unable to chase the target of 261 runs and was able to make only 235 in 49.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wicket and lost the game by 25 runs and with top contributions from T Iqbal who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 2 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

Ireland won the match 25 runs and series ends at 4-3 in favor of Ireland.

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